User interface design links

Trolled across these from a slashdot post:

A shareware book on HCI

A nice brief summary of the magic number 7 (+/-2)

The non designers design book

Ideo method cards for eliciting how people really do what they're doing

Emotional Design which is supposed to be a great book

Universal Principles of Design a few hundred design principles, each explained in a page or two.

Good stock icons for Vista

I've been searching around for good Vista style icons and they're hard to find.

I like the look of this company's icons, and more than that, they deliver them all in normal + disabled versiosn and in all sizes ranging from 256x256 down to 16x16. The real kicker is they have taken the time to make the 16x16 icons still representative of the idea rather than just downsizing the 256x256 image.

Professional Icons - Stock 3D Icons for Web & Software

visualization web services (almost)

Very cool web apps that technically could be services, though they're not packaged as such.

They are from the same minds that gave us one of my favorite visualizations Baby Name Voyager

One app analyzes word frequencies in free text and displays them with greater word size indicating greater frequency.

They also have something that makes network diagrams, maps of the world and the US, as well as more pedistrian bar charts, scatter plots

Many Eyes

Venture Capital Visualization

Very cool mapping tool. Put in a company/person/investment firm and it will show you its relations. Also has links to LinkedIN.

LinkSViewer 1.2

16x16 is no room for an amateur

So I'm by no means an artist, but I play a critic on the world wide web.

16x16 icons, which this article below talks about in the context of the little webpage tab/bookmark icons, are *really* difficult to get an idea across with.

Unfortunatly, WinXP uses them all over the place. You can't just take your 32x32 or 48x48 icon, shrink it to 16x16 and get something the same effect. Despite Vista's new 256x256 icon size, the issue will still remain.

Some well done 16x16 icons:
Inspire Yourself: 50 Remarkable Favicons | Smashing Magazine

Great Font, Icon, and Logo designer

most of it is retro stuff, but no arguing with its absolute spot on style.

Their magneto font was used for Pixar's Cars movie.

http://www.flashfonts.com/flashsite/fontspage2.htm

and another good font site:
http://www.fontbureau.com

<< BAD DESIGN KILLS >>

It's more targeted for graphic artists, but I couldn't agree more. Bad Design Kills.

I especially like their free downloadable posters.

http://www.baddesignkills.com/

Ten Most Wanted Design Bugs

Ten Most Wanted Design Bugs

Great list of interface design bugs, with some proposed fixes.

I especially like the "add a hint to why this control is greyed out" solution.